Posted on 05/04/2015 8:38:42 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
WASHINGTON During a training course on defending against knife attacks, a young Salt Lake City police officer asked a question: How close can somebody get to me before Im justified in using deadly force?
Dennis Tueller, the instructor in that class more than three decades ago, decided to find out. In the fall of 1982, he performed a rudimentary series of tests and concluded that an armed attacker who bolted toward an officer could clear 21 feet in the time it took most officers to draw, aim and fire their weapon.
The next spring, Mr. Tueller published his findings in SWAT magazine and transformed police training in the United States. The 21-foot rule became dogma. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
BTTT
“You may want to do a little research on that.”
I already have, but you should do your own...
This is interesting. The change was made in the 1980’s, and recently it seems that the number of officer-involved shootings has gone up... as the officers who were trained under the old rules have retired and been replaced with those who were trained under the new rules. As the older officers retire, there is a reduction in modeling of de-escalation as well.
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jcrim/2014/726492/
The link above was all I could find quickly, but what it shows goes along with the time frame.
I have.
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